Importing existing formulas: software that onboards your spreadsheets, not just new products

The biggest thing standing between a manufacturer and better formulation software usually isn't the software — it's the catalog they already have. Years of formulas, BOMs, and specifications live in spreadsheets, and the thought of re-entering all of it by hand is enough to keep a team on the spreadsheets forever. Software that imports and onboards your existing formulas removes that barrier, so you start with your real products. Here's why it's the capability that actually gets you moving.

The existing catalog is the real barrier

A new tool that only helps with new products leaves your existing catalog stranded in spreadsheets — so you're running two systems, and the value is delayed until enough new products accumulate. The catalog you already have is where your value is, and it's exactly what's hardest to move. Onboarding has to bring the existing formulas in, or adoption stalls before it starts.

Import the formulas you have

The capability is to bring existing formulas and their data — the ingredients, amounts, and BOMs you've maintained in spreadsheets — into the system, rather than re-keying each one. Import turns a daunting re-entry project into an onboarding step, so your real catalog is in the software and working, with its nutrition, compliance, cost, and documents now generated from it. You start from your actual products, not a blank slate.

Onboarding is a service, not just a feature

Getting a real catalog in well is often more than a file upload — it's mapping your data, characterizing your ingredients, and making sure the imported formulas calculate correctly. Treating onboarding as a supported process, not a button you press alone, is what gets a manufacturer from spreadsheets to a working system without a painful gap. The goal is your catalog, live and correct, with help to get it there.

The payoff: everything, from day one

Once your existing formulas are in, the whole value of the software applies to your real products immediately — the compliance checks, the generated labels and documents, the cost roll-ups, the where-used traceability, all working on the catalog you actually sell. Import is what unlocks that on day one, instead of waiting for a new-product catalog to slowly build up beside the old spreadsheets.

This is general information, not regulatory or legal advice. Confirm that imported data is accurate and complete for your products before relying on the outputs, with a qualified expert where appropriate.

Where Lemoniq fits

Lemoniq imports your existing formulas and BOMs so your real catalog is onboarded into the system — not just new products — with support to map and characterize your data, so the compliance checks, generated documents, cost, and traceability apply to the products you already sell from the start.

The takeaway

The catalog already in spreadsheets is the real barrier to adopting formulation software — and software that imports and onboards your existing formulas removes it, so you start with your real products and get the full value from day one. That's the onboarding capability that actually gets a manufacturer off spreadsheets.

Lemoniq imports your existing formulas and BOMs, so you start with your real catalog. See how it works